Hardening Claude Code at Scale: Surviving Context Bloat, Rate-Limit Cascades, and Prompt Cache Eviction
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At 3:17 AM during an automated monorepo migration, our background agent cluster incinerated $940 of API credit in twenty-two minutes before triggering a hard upstream 429 lock. The culprit was not an infinite loop—it was a cascading context blowout inside anthropics/claude-code . When a terminal co…
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- 2026-10-01 14:01 · DEV Community — AI
Hardening Claude Code at Scale: Surviving Context Bloat, Rate-Limit Cascades, and Prompt Cache Eviction